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An Anzac Zionist hero : the life of Lieutenant-Colonel
Eliazar Margolin
Rodney Gouttman
London ; Portland, OR : Vallentine Mitchell, 2006
ISBN: 0853036470
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Book description
Rodney Gouttman provides the reader with a groundbreaking
biography of a quiet, engaging, and unassuming figure, a man of deeds rather
than words. Eliazar Lazar Margolin participated in the primal
foundation myths of two distinct nations, Australia and Israel. A
pioneer farmer in Palestine whose exploits won the admiration of local
Arabs, an original Anzac, a commander in the Jewish Legion before and after
the Armistice of the First World War, he became, albeit briefly, the first
Jewish military governor in the Holy Land for eighteen hundred years.
An enduring feature of his personality was his concern and care for others,
whether as a Zionist pioneer, with his Digger mates during the First World
War, the Jewish Legion in the Holy Land, or as an active member of the RSL
and Legacy in Perth. He was ever a soldier's soldier.
Among those who crossed Eliazar's path were Theodore Herzl, General Sir John
Monash, Vladimir Jabotinsky, David Ben-Gurion, and Yitzhak Ben-Zvi. In
Australia, his relationship with the Perth Jewish community was always tense
and ambivalent, and on one occasion his character was falsely attacked by a
misguided senator in the Australian Parliament.
About the author
Rodney Gouttman is a research associate at the Australian
Centre for Jewish Civilisation at Monash University. He has been a
senior Lecturer a the School of Education, University of South
Australia.
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